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How Smokey and the Bandit 3 might have been even worse than it was

• It was originally shot with Gleason playing both Smokey and Bandit
• "Gleason, with his delusional and deformed ego running wild envisioned this role as the one that would change his image into one of a sex symbol, and in his mind there was really no difference in physique between himself and the man who previously had the role. With the bottle of Wild Turkey and a chicken leg in hand, he marched over to the warehouse where Burt Reynolds’ old costumes were kept. More than an hour later, he emerged wedged and stuffed into Reynolds’s already too-tight jeans with one of his shirts covering only part of his torso. He had matted, and pushed to the back what was left of his hair. Deranged on whisky, he began to strut around the set like a rooster in heat whose ass had been set on fire."